[EMAIL PROTECTED] opalinski from opalpaweb wrote: >>Simply put, tabs is proper, and spaces are improper. >>Why? This may seem >>ridiculously simple given the de facto ball of confusion: the semantics >>of tabs is what indenting is about, while, using spaces to align code >>is a hack. > > > The reality of programming practice trumps original intent of tab > characters. The tab character and space character are pliable in that > if their use changes their semantics change. [...]
Yes, as I started programming I also preferred tabs. And with growing experience on how to handle this in true life (different editors/systems/languages...) I saw, that converting the "so fine tabs" was annoying. The only thing that always worked were spaces. Tab: nice idea but makes programming an annoyance. Ciao, Oliver -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list